Since 1753

Mace -Mase

Mays - Maze

In 1976, "Aunt Catharine" , who was our family historian at the
time, and others on the committee published a family history book. I've
scanned it into my computer and reproduced it here. Due to limitations of
scanning technology, the formatting of the scanned text is not exactly the same
as the original. Since we are currently working on the third edition, I am
posting all of the Second edition without correcting any of the scanned pages
but will correct and continue to format as time permits.

In today's world we must be careful to guard certain personal
information, so I have removed the month and day of birth from anyone who is or
may still be alive. I've decided to err on the side of caution by removing
this data from anyone born after 1900 unless a date of
death is given. If you find information that is
incorrect in this book or if you have a date of death for anyone still shown as
being alive, you can submit revisions here.
If you think you may be a member of the family, but are not sure, you can
contact
the Family Historian by e-mail.

Modern technology is wonderful. In the paper version it
is hard to follow a specific family lineage through the generations. I
started
inserting links in the on-line version which will take you not only from the
listing of a person's child to that child's place in the book, but also back
again to the parent. This will allow those in later generations to trace
their line back through the generations. But because I am devoting my
efforts to the Third edition, this function is incomplete and will be updated as
time permits.

As of 12/2/07, all the new information to the end of the
Second Generation has been updated and is as complete as we have. We have
added a new chart to page 4 which gives addition information about the Maize
branch of the family. If these changes have helped you to find more information
about your branch of the family and can shed more light on our whole family,
please
contact
the Family Historian by e-mail.

At some point in the future, I hope to include a graphic
representation of the tree with links to the book, but for now, my main
objective is to publish what we already have.

Richard L Mase Sr.

Webmaster

Preface to the Second Edition

1976 was
indeed an historic year. Not only did we celebrate our nation's two hundredth birthday, but
within our family an event of major significance took place. The farm homestead
settled by our original ancestors in the mid 1700's, which had remained in
the family name since then, was sold at public auction. We trust that the new owners
will be as good stewards of the land as our family has been for over two hundred and fifty years.

1975 also saw the television showing of Alex Haley's personal It has generated
considerable interest in family
history and family pride. Even before this showing we
realized that the original edition of the Mace-Mase-Mays-Maze Family History,
compiled in 1959 by Catharine Mase and Cora Mays, should be revised to
include the new generation that has come on in the last seventeen years.
Those who had been young children in 1959 are now grown, married, and having families of their own. Sadly, some of the older ones
have passed on.

At the 1976
family reunion of resolution was passed to form a committee to revise the Family History. Your
committee has accepted the challenge and spent countless hours and miles making
personal contact with the various family branches. We have also attempted to add as much
newly uncovered information as possible on the older generations.

For
standardization, the committee decided to include only two generations of name change from the
marriage of any Mace, Mase, Mays, Maize woman. This was deemed
necessary in order to keep our family
book from being overfilled with other surnames. By this procedure she
will see her grandchildren listed. The
family historian's master book will include even more generations
where information is available. We recognize the
dynamic nature of the family. For this reason we have adopted a
loose leaf binder cover in order to make periodic updates without having to
issue an entirely new book.

Lastly
we would like to thank everyone for their excellent co­operation
in supplying information for this book. In any work of this size inadvertent mistakes,
omission, and errors can occur. We would appreciate your calling them to our
attention.

It has
been a rewarding experience to serve in this capacity.

Catharine Mase, Historian

Charles
Mase

Charles Mase, Jr.

Gloria Mace

Leonard Mays

William Mays

Phyllis Caskie

James
Clouse

Preface to the First Edition

At the wedding of
my cousin Edith Eleanor Mays, daughter of Thomas C. Mays (Family No. 152), Aunt
Alice, Charles W. and I discussed family reunion because I confessed that I didn't
know the bride since she was grown. Several weeks later my brother, Marvin, his wife
Fannie and son Victor took my parents and me to see Charles. Tentative plans were made to hold a Mase
family reunion.

The following
week or so Charles contacted Katherine Mays Miller of Stony Creek Mills, which resulted in
a meeting held there attended by a number of the Reading family and final plans were made to
hold a Mase-Mays reunion. Later we met some Mace
people and thus it grew into the Mase-Mays-Mace reunion with many variations in spelling on the record.

The first
officers were: Pres. Charles W. Mase, V. Pres.
Katherine Mays Miller, Sec. Catharine A.
Mase, Treas. Marvin W. Mase, who
contributed a free treat to the children at one of the reunions, Historian, Cora C. Mays of
Reading. Games were to be directed by
Mattie E. Mase Brimmer but Mother was ill and Mattie stayed home to care for her.

The newspaper
item tells us that Esther M. Mase directed a children's program, recitations,
etc.; the officers serving at the first reunion were elected to these respective offices
and in
addition Catharine A. Mase was elected as assistant Historian.

Miss Cora C.
Mays, received in about 1951 a basic outline of the family from Mrs. Mary Owen Steinmetz,
genealogist of Reading. She was a daughter-in-law of the Rev. J. W. and Mary Margaret Mays
Steinmetz.

Mrs. Steinmetz
wrote "Owing to the various spellings of the name it is a little hard to tell just when the family came to
Pennsylvania. In Vol. 17, 2nd Series, page
391-392 (Par. Archives?) among the
list of foreigners qualified at Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1753, we find John George Maisch
(John Jurg May). This I believe to be the ancestor of the Mays family." (In the Strausburger & Hincke books, at most
Historical Societies, can be seen the
copies of the original signatures of many of the ship's male passengers. John George Maisch is the
signature and the 'John Jurg May' is the way the English clerk wrote the name.)

At another place
Mrs. Steinmetz referred to the list of the 'Duke of Wirtenburg' arriving October 16,
1751. This ship's list also has a signature similar to the one in 1753. On this
ship's list we find a passenger by the name of Michael Deis or Tice. A man named Michael
Tice was chosen as guardian for some of the children after the death of George Maess in
1767.

My grandfather,
John Henry Mase, claimed that the family came to Pennsylvania in the 1730's. Sketches in the Montgomery
Berks County History members of the Mays
family claim a similar date, I believe. But the baptism letter of
Nicholas Mays, born November 24, 1741, and the church
records received from Dr. Fritz Braun signify
a later date.

George Miess
("Mess") born in Bertenan, Germany, November 20, 1704, passenger on the ship
"Pleasant" arrived in Philadelphia, October 11, 1732. He settled in the "Hole"
in the Monroe Valley, north of Fredericksburg. One of his sons was killed by the
Indians in June or July 1756. This boy, John George Miess, and his
family belonged to the Moravian church and are buried in the old Moravian
Graveyard at Fort Sugar, a mile east of Lickdale, Lebanon County, Pa.

In 1950 my father
and I visited the late Nevin W. Moyer of Linglestown, a descendant of George Miess,
after reading Mr. Moyer's story of this family in the "Pennsylvania Dutchman" May 15, 1950. For our family also had a story of a boy being shot by the Indians and Mr. Moyer
assured us that he felt we were of one family. The people in this family were also
members of
the Reformed Church when they came to this country and later
generations went back to the Reformed denomination after the Moravian influence in the Monroe
Valley had died out. The later John Swanger of this Mease family said that my
father,
Aaron W. Mase, looks exactly like his grandfather Philip Mease who is buried on
the Bethel cemetery in the Monroe Valley.

Among the notes
of Dr. Thomas J. Mays we find that he had visited John Milton Mays of Philadelphia, who in turn had
recently been visited by William Snyder of
Lebanon. William Snyder had told
Milton Mays of hearing that Nicholas Mays had settled near Fredericksburg
and had been a teamster in

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Washington's army. Land office records at Harrisburg
show that Nicholas Maes bought land from Henry Newfer (Neifer) or his estate
in Heidelberg Township, Lancaster County (now Lebanon Co.); George Maes
bought land from Frederick Shinefelt following the same procedure as did
Jacob in completing the survey of the land applied for earlier by warrant by
John Tinges. Children's baptisms are also recorded in the Schaefferstown
area. It seems to me that these stories point to a relationship to this
George Miess (now Mease and Meese) who arrived in 1732 and possibly account
for the claim to the earlier migration date.

Up to the time that the will of George Maess, d. 1767,
was found in Lancaster County records (possibly by Mary Owen Steinmetz) I
believe that some of our family thought that Nicholas was the ancestor of
this family. We believe that part of the farm where Uncle Ulysses S. Mase
lives is where George Maess settled.

We have this story: Aunt Agnes (Mase) Reist, who is
ninety this month, says that she was told that the flowers that bloom each
spring in the field southwest of Uncle Lee's house are from bulbs brought
from "Em Aulda Lond" (the old country). After years of pasturing and a
number of ploughings the Grape Hyacinths, the double Daffodils (Die Oshter
Blumma) and the Narcissus are scattered over a large area, some several
hundred yards from where Uncle Henry Mase remembered the marks of the
foundation of one of the early houses, and my father says he and Henry
helped to close the well.

Although Grandpa Mase and others claimed German
ancestry, the records from Mrs. Steinmetz showed that George Maess came from Lachen-Pfeyersdorf, Switzerland. So, in my search for a uniform spelling of
our family, I wrote to Stads Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (address from Dr.
Arthur Graeff, when we visited "Die Wunnernaus" program on my father's 80th
birthday in 1956). From Zurich they sent my letter to Dr. Fritz Braun, Auf der Pirsch, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

From Dr. Paul Guyer, Stads Museum, Zurich, Switzerland,
I learned that there is no such place like Pfeyersdorf in Switzerland, but
that the community of Lachen-Speyerdorf belong to the district of Neustadt
in the Palatinate and before very long Dr. Braun sent me these records from
the Reformed Church Book of Lachen-Speyerdorf, Germany, exactly as he found
them.

In May 1957, Dr. Braun visited the United States. Mr.
Roy Dundore of Lebanon brought Dr. Braun to our house. He told my father
something like this: "It is amazing after a separation of 200 years that you
still have the singing voice like the natives of Speyerdorf." "They still
spell it "Mees" out there," he said, "and the pronunciation is similar to
ours."

I wish to thank those members of the family who helped
us with materials to assemble this genealogy; Milton Brown, Lancaster
genealogist; also Mr. Walter J. Yingst, Wilmington, Delaware, genealogist
for Yingst and related families.

Cora C. Mays taught me how to use courthouse records
and we visited those in Lebanon, Dauphin, Lancaster, Chester and
Philadelphia counties for wills and deeds in order to find names listed. The
Land Grant offices at Harrisburg, Fackenthal Library at F. & M. College,
Lancaster, and the Lebanon County Historical Society were visited frequently
for information; also the genealogical department of the Penna. State
Library. Of special use was Brendle's History of Schaefferstown.

Mistakes and omissions are unavoidable on a first
attempt at compiling data for a family history of this kind. Your
cooperation in notifying us of corrections to be made will be appreciated.

Catharine A. Mase

Report
of the Family Historian

When
Dr. Fritz Braun visited our home in May 1957, he
invited us to come to Germany.

My father felt
unable to make the trip but I assured them both that I would do so if possible some day.

In the early part
of the summer of 1975, I attended a class of "Pennsylvania German Culture" taught by Dr. C. Richard
Beam, Professor of German at Millersville
State College. Dr. Beam has spent
quite a bit of time in Europe. He showed us slides of the country and the areas with
similar dialects as ours.

Dr. Beam had also
taped several programs for his share in the Pennsylvania German program aired every
Sunday on WLBR, of Aunt May and Uncle Lee telling of their
childhood, etc, on the farm.

When Dr. Beam
learned of my desire to visit the area where our family came from in Germany, he
encouraged me to go as soon as
possible as Dr. Braun was ill and not expected to
recover. Already, by that time, Dr. Braun told me that he was too
ill to help me if and when I came.

When, on the spur
of the moment, I invited Uncle Lee to go with me I learned that he was quite anxious to do so. On
contacting his doctor, I was assured that
there was no reason he could not go.
Unfortunately I was unable to arrange my work

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immediately, but finally by October 20th we were on our way.
An earlier date would have been better weather-wise.

My cousin, Jennie Reist Funck, offered to have Aunt May visit with her until we came back. My niece, Esther Mase, took care of my house and the 'Dutchmaid' business, and another niece, Elizabeth
Brimmer Smith, of Bethlehem, took care of my car
and she and her husband took us to New York to the Kennedy airport, as well as arranging for a wheelchair at Kennedy and at
Luxemburg for Uncle Lee.

At about 9:45 P.M. we left New York, stopped at Iceland, and landed at
Luxemburg the next day where we stayed at the Alpha Hotel the first night in Europe.

The next day we rented a Simca car from the Prestige Co. and were soon on our way toward Lachen-Speyerdorf. Uncle Lee said with
relief. "Nau. kenna mier gae." (Now, we can go.)

The first day we met Horst Brownsweiger, a waiter at the Waldmoor restaurant. The wrong turn took us by the farm of Anton Ricker, who had a large dairy, a Harvestore silo, and Laval milkers and we learned that in the room between his house and barn was where he made the schnapps to send to California. This was how he disposed of the large pile of potatoes near his
building, which had aroused Uncle Lee's curiosity.

Farmer Ricker mentioned a Mees guest house at Waldmoor, but I was unable to locate it and we found a place to stay for the
night near Homberg, there met Emil Sohn and Frtiz Marx.

The next day we lunched at Kinsbach and I was accompanied by one of the guests to the bank to exchange some traveler's checks, while Uncle Lee visited with some of the people at the guest house and restaurant.

Thursday night was spent at Willie Seeker's guest house at Hoch Speyer.

Friday, by way of Neustadt, we arrived at Lachen-Speyerdorf, two villages divided by the Speyerbach creek which flows into the Rhine River at Speyer.

First, to the Speyerdorf Church, met Herr Reichart, a retired teacher, writer, and organist, and his daughter,
Ilsa.

Herr Reichart rode with us to the home of Hedwig (Mees) and August Hofman. In her home we met her Aunt Maria (Vetter or Fetter) 89, from Frankfort, with her attorney son and his wife and daughter. They were there for the burial of the husband and father, Mr. Vetter. Maria was a Mees and her mother had also been a
Mees, married to a Mees. Heddi and August live in the home where her grandparents and great grandparents had lived and farmed, less land now apparently but raising their own vegetables and fruit.

Then to Wilhelm and Maria Mees, a retired plumber, with two sons and a large operation, at the time making steel banisters for a
large building, also aluminum storm windows, etc.

We participated in the Communion service at the Speyerdorf Church on Sunday, visiting the cemetery in the afternoon with Heinz Anheuser (relative of the Budweiser Beer family). We saw many Mees tombstones.

Monday, Heddi, August and Herr Reichart took us to the Burgemeister (mayor) office where we were presented with a 1200 year history of Lachen-Speyerdorf written and assembled by Herr
Reichart, also several other mementoes of the April '75 celebration.

Heddi made lunch for us and then they took us to Klόngenmuenster, mentioned as an earlier Mees residence. But no records were there of before the 1820 freedom from the French invasion.

Heddi also gave one of August's overcoats to Uncle Lee as we
had lost his earlier. It was quite cool and damp and he
appreciated it.

While
we had stayed at the 'Waldmansburg' at Neustadt on Friday
night, we changed to the 'Flugplatz' in Lachen the next
six nights of our stay in Lachen. In the mornings we rode around the country and from Monday on when Heddi treated us in her home for the noon meal, so we were also entertained for the
noon meals at the homes of Wilhelm Mees, Frieda Mees
Hofsess, and Conrad Mees, who took us
sightseeing to Speyer. Conrad also took me to see the old Lachen Church being renovated, and he took me to see Emil Heigle, a former Burgemeister, who has had a life hobby
of writing history of the area, contributing a great deal to the
1200-year history assembled by Herr Reichart.

Eric Mees and his family had us on another day for an evening
meal, consisting of cold cuts, ham and various kinds of
sausages, all from their own butchering. The others served us meat, potatoes in various forms (salt
water, mashed, and/or filling),
butter noodles, salads and lettuce, cauliflower, coffee or tea and always their own wine.

At four o'clock cake and coffee were served, and all of them had relatives coming in to meet us.

I think it was Peter Mees, brother of Conrad and Wilhelm, who we met for the second time at Bauman's barbershop. He was
disappointed that we had not called at his home but there was no more time.

Freida Hofsess told us that her grandparents and Mees
families before them lived in the home across the street from the Lachen Church. She called it the Mees
homestead. She and Eric Mees, the
postman and farmer, are closely related.

Uncle Lee was impressed with the ease of conversing with them. (One example: they still say grundbeera for potatoes while the High German word is gatuffla.) Another enjoyment he had was seeing the women ride bicycles, especially amazed at the ease of the older women using this transportation.

Several people inquired as to whether Uncle Lee was born there. He remarked that he felt quite at home among them and recently said that if his eyesight were better he would like to go again.

When we left Lachen-Speyerdorf on Friday afternoon we headed back toward Kaiserslautern. Because of the November 1st religious holiday we were unable to visit the Heimatstelle Pfalz until Monday and then Dr. Karl Sherer led us by car to the home of Dr. Braun, after which Mrs. Braun led us back to the main highway and we came to Holberg and spent the night once more at the Frau Kiltnau guest house. She called Emil Sohn and Fritz
Marx by telephone and they came to see how we had fared at Lachen-Speyerdorf. Along with Dr. Braun they were happy to know of our cordial reception in our ancestral hometown.

We came back with many of their voices on tape and several pictures (the weather was cloudy most of the time) but Aunt May sees a similarity between Wilhelm Mees and Aaron C. Mays, son of Thomas C. Mays.

Back to Luxemburg after a two weeks car rental instead of a week as originally planned, back to New York, having to call the
Smith's at Bethlehem because of a delayed and changed
telegram, which seems was the greatest
error on this delightful trip. We spent the night at Bethlehem and
after a leisurely morning there while the
family went to work, we came back to my home about 3:30 P.M., November 6th.
Later we had supper at the Funck's
in Annville and brought Aunt May home.

And so ended a trip for Uncle Lee and me which seemed like "mae glick os ferstundt" (more luck than common sense) as we had no great difficulties and a great deal of unplanned help.

Qualified at
Philadelphia, Sept. 17, 1753, on his arrival settled in Lancaster County,
later Lebanon
Countywas naturalized Sept. 13, 1761 and died in 1767. His will names his
wife Anna Maria, his son Nicholas and friend and neighbor George Swengel as
Executors.

Witnesses were: Matthias Crall
and Michael Brecht.

His wife Anna Maria was still
living in 1783.

According to stories handed down by the families, George Maess (signature on
the will) settled on a
plot of ground recently owned by a descendant, Ulysses S. Mase, in
Heidelberg Township, Lebanon County (formerly Lancaster County). This plot
is supposed to have contained 20 acres.

A land warrant which was never
completed by survey has been found in the Land Office at Harrisburg which
shows that George Mehs, Jacob Kimmerling and Jacob Ebrecht applied for
twenty acres of land for the purpose of
erecting a church on what is believed to be the present site of
Kimmerlings (St. Jacobs) Evangelical and Reformed Church, North Lebanon
Township, then Lebanon Township,
Lancaster County. According to Dr. P. D. Gibble a land warrant was again
taken out in the 1830's. (Apparently the first warrant was never
completed.

WHEREAS, I, George Maess, of
Heidelberg Township, in the County of Lancaster and Province of
Pennsylvania, have taken in consideration the shortness of Human Life and
that I even now find myself sick and weak
of Body but of perfect mind and understanding, do make this as my last will
and testament.

FIRSTI recommend my soul into
the hands of my Savior Jesus Christ.

SECONDLYI order that my body shall be decently interred and as to my
worldly estate, it is my will as follows:

That my hereinafter named
executors shall make an inventory of all my moveable goods but nevertheless
that none of these goods shall be sold which are of benefit or advantage to
keep up the plantation, and my beloved wife Anna Maria shall have everything
under her care and management by and
under the advice of my executors that it may be to the advantage as well for
her as my children during her widowhood and my children shall be bound under
the care of my executors to obey my wife until they arrive at their lawful age or
during her widowhood, but if an alteration shall happen or if my wife should
alter her mind then I order that after
deducting her lawful thirds the remainder to be divided amongst my
eight children, viz: John Maess, Nicholas Maess, John Jacob Maess, Geo.
Maess, John Michael Maess, Margaretha and Catharine and Anna Maria Maess,
share alike, but it is my will that my beloved son John Maess shall have
five pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania aforehand, he being my first born
son, and then he shall have share alike that is to say my eight children,
viz: John, Nicholas, John Jacob, George and John Michael Maess, and
Margaret, Catharine and Anna Maria Maess, shall all share alike excepting
the five pounds which I give to my son John for his birthright, and lastly,
I do hereby nominate and appoint my beloved friend and neighbor, Geo.
Swengel, and my beloved wife Anna Maria, and my beloved son Nicholas Maess,
Executors of this my last will and testament.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF and to
certify that this is my last will and testament, I have set my hand and seal
the fourteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and sixty-seven (1767).

In the presence of us as
witnesses:

his(s) Mathias X Crall(s) GEORGE MAESS
(SEAL)

mark

(s) Michael Bright

Filed
in the REGISTER'S OFFICE, LANCASTER COUNTY 1767 Will Book B 1/634 Misc. Book
1768-1772

Record Continued in Misc. Book
1768-1772Lancaster County, Pa.

GEORGE SWENGEL, ANNA MARIA
MEAS and NICHOLAS MEAS, Executors of the last will and testament of George
Meas, dec'd., produced to the Court the Account of their Administration on
the estate of the said deceased, duly passed before the Deputy Register,
whereby there appears a Ballance in their hands of £ 197, 18,
0 to be paid and distributed
agreeable to the will of the testator, the court on examination allows and
approves thereof and orders that the said Ballance after deducting 12/ths
Expenses of this Court be paid and distributed agreeable to the said last
will and testament of the said Testator.

GEORGE MEAS, deceased. Jacob
Meas, George Meas & Margaret Meas, minor children of George Meas, dec'd.,
being severally above the age of 14 years, come into Court and chuse Michael
Tice, of Lebanon Twp., guardian over their estates during their minority,
who is accordingly approved of by the Court.

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA. Records

GEORGE MEAS,
deceased Will Bk. Vol. 1-B, p. 634The last will and testament of GEORGE MEAS, being written in High Dutch,
could not be recorded but
thereon is endorsed as follows:

Lancaster Co., ss: On the 16th
day of December, A.D. 1767, before me the subscriber, personally appeared
the above named Mathias Crall and Michael Brecht, the two subscribing
witnesses to the above Will, and on their solemn affirmation according to
law, did severally declare and say that they were
present in law and heard and saw and
heard George Meas, the testator above named, sign, seal, publish,
pronounce and declare the above and within writing as and for his last will
and testament, and that at the doing thereof he was of sound
and well disposing mind, memory and understanding to the best of their
knowledge, observation and belief.

(s) EDW. SHIPPEN, D. R.r

BE IT REMEMBERED that on the
16th day of December, A.D. 1771, the last will and testament of Geo. Meas.
late of Heidelberg Twp., in the County of Lancaster, Yeoman, deceased, was
proved in due form of
!aw and letters testamentary thereon were granted to Geo. Swengel, Anna
Maria Meas and Nicholas Meas. the executors therein named, they being first
duly qualified well and truly to administer the estate
of the decedent and to exhibit a true
and perfect inventory thereof into the Register's Office at Lancaster,
on or before the 16th day of January next, and to render a true and
just account of the administration on the said estate when thereto lawfully
required. Given under the seal of the said office at Lancaster.

(s) EDW. SHIPPEN,
D. R.r

SECOND GENERATION

2. JOHN MAESS, b. Dec. 18,
1735, oldest son of George Maess, immigrant, probably settled at Kimmerlings, married Elizabeth Kimmerling who may have been daughter of
Jacob Kimmerling of Kimmerling Church. (According to Rev. Welker's sketch of
that church in the book, "History of the Lebanon Classis of the Reformed Church, "Jacob
Kimmerling's daughter Eva Elizabeth was married to s John Maas. When Jacob
Kimmerling died in 1771 his daughter had died and his only survivors were
his wife Maria Catharine and
his granddaughter Anna Barbara Maas.)

Kimmerling's baptism records
show these children baptized whose parents were John and Elizabeth Maes.

The family
that Mrs. Steinmetz was referring to is the Michael Maize
family of New Berlin, Pa. near
Lewisburg. It is unfortunate that this revelation was made after the
covers for this Family Book had a ready
gone to the printer, since the name Maize should have been included. An old
family Bible written in German, which was in the possession of Miss Clara
Maize Benfer until her death, when Mr. Frank
Maize one of the administrators of
her estate, allowed Prof. Adolph Frantz of Bucknell University to translate
it into English, has the list of names shown on next page.

Apparently
after the death of John, Elizabeth lived with her son Michael and
his family on Michael's farm
near New Berlin. The will of Elizabeth Maze,
wife of John, late of Lancaster
County, was made May 31, 1802. filed June 15, 1802, and accounts
filed Oct. 28, 1805. To Michael Maze, her son, she willed most all for being
so kind to her in her last days. "Michael Myer (Moyer), married to my
daughter, has no right to any personal property.

The first two columns of the next table show the original
research into this branch of the family as published in the second edition.
Column three "Gloria's Records" shows additional information helping to tie
together this branch of the family. Gloria Maize of Lewisburg is a direct
descendent of John Maess (2) and has obtained her information from records
located in the Union County Courthouse.

"In the
year, (as one counts, according to our only Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus
Christ), on the 24th day of November, was born to my dear sponsor, John
George Mays, citizen of Lachen, and to his beloved housewife, Anna Maria
Lena Mays, nee Dippelin, a little son to the light of the world.

"And by me,
John Nicholas Mays, legitimate son of the Hon. Jacob Mays, a citizen and
custom officer a Speyerdorf, on the 26th day of November, presented at the
Holy Baptism, and imparted to him my Christian name, John Nicholas.

"According
to the above, dearest cousin and child, thou has been born on the 24th of
November, in the morning, a child in sin, by nature, destined to
destruction, but through Christ's blood washed clean and pure, because
through God's mercy, thou has received the Heavenly Bath; therefore, God,
the Highest, protect thee. From me take this little present.. .thy Redeemer
give thee luck, happiness, health and long
life, until thy cousin and Godfather, through God's blessing, can give thee
the heavenly joy that thou wilt praise and
exalt Him forever and ever. "Such wishes thee thy faithful Godfather. God
knows it comes from the heart."

John
Nicholas Mays

Speyerdorf, the 24th of November,

Anno Domini, 1741.

Nicholas was married to
Susanna Laubscher1, daughter of Conrad and Anna Margaretha Rehberger Laubscher, on May 24, 1768, by the Rev. John Conrad Bucher. Susanna died before 1812; Nicholas died in
1813. Lebanon County records show that Nicholas died intestate; but a will
has been found among Mrs. Steinmetz's papers.

5.
JOHN JACOB MAESS, b.
March 18, 1758; d. May 22, 1839. Nicknamed Yokel". Cook in the
"Revolutionary Army; wrote to Washington, D.C. and inquired State Library,
Lebanon County
Historical Society (Mrs. R. H.
Lee) but found only a notation in the State Library file: "Jacob Miess,
Revolutionary War soldier,
birth and death dates and buried at Schaefferstown". Story handed down
in the
family is that he served in the war at a very early age; also married very
young on Jan. 19,1773. Married Catharine Tinges (formerly Tinneas) b. Dec.
18,1758; d. Oct. 2. 1814 Catharine Tinges lived on a farm which she and Jacob
inherited from her father John Tinges; the
farm coming into her and
her husband's possession Sept. 25, 1787 and has been owned by the
Mees-Mase family since then. John
Tinges applied for the land in 1755.

In 1834 a new barn was built on
the farm, the walls of which are still standing, and most of the log
frame
was retained when the barn was repaired after John Henry Mase's death. At
that time Jacob, who was then 76 years of age hauled the water used
for mortar in building the stone walls
whereon a stone plate is carved with the date and names of son Jacob and his
wife, Susanna. 1834. That year Jacob and Susanna became owners of the farm.

m. Barbara Smith. b. July 4,
1776; d. July 30, 1848, daughter of Adam Smith, who was a teamster during
the Revolutionary War. Michael settled on a farm near New Berlin. His
widowed mother (Eva) Elizabeth (Kimmerling) Maess and
unmarried sister,
Elizabeth lived with him.

Notes on First Evangelical
Church at New Berlin

The inland village of New
Berlin, Pa., played an important part in the early days of our Evangelical
History The history of our denomination is the history of New Berlin written large.

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In the spring of 1805, Jacob
Albright, John Walter, and George Miller made an evangelistic
tour to New Berlin and vicinity. Michael Maize
entertained the triumvirate and was the committee on arrangements. An appointment was made for John Walter to preach in the schoolhouse at New
Berlin

At New
Berlin the formative elements of the Evangelical Church were
crystallized into a permanent
form. A mile and one-half east of
New Berlin, the first German camp
meeting in America was held, 1810, by
our Evangelical people. It was located on the farm of Michael Maize, the
first class leader west of the
Susquehanna River. Here the first church lot was purchased in
1815... Union Seminary has continued
in unbroken existence to this day, now functioning so
enterprisingly as Albright College at
Reading, Pa.

Michael built a good barn in 1819. It is still in active use
and is in good condition. On one side, at the top, is a stone on which is
inscribed "M-MS 1819"2 3 4

m. March 27, 1814 to Elizabeth
Deal, Daughter of Henry Deal,
b. Sept. 26,1776; d. May 20,1842. They lived in Mifflinburg and they are buried in
the Dreisbach Cemetery, Mifflin Burg, PA.

Author's Note

At this point we have
found more descendents. This is where the numbering system will start to
change. I am now waiting for those changes from the Family Historian
before publishing the rest of the Third edition.

m. Mary  b.
Aug. 16. 1783; d. April 16,
1860. John Adam was a potter. "Under the ministry of Albright and his
colleagues in 1805-07 were the following: John Adam Maize and
his wife, Mary. He was a close friend of Rev. George Miller and it is
said he assisted him in the preparation and publication of The First
Discipline in 1809." John and Mary are buried in New Berlin.

Brendel5 also
mentions Polly, but no date. Miss Winifred Berger of Reading feels sure
that Margaret was Polly as Miss Berger's mother, Camilla, daughter of Benjamin
b. 1805, used to spend the night with Aunt Polly so that Aunt
Polly wouldn't be alone. As a girl the night noises of the country, etc.
did not appeal to Camilla.

Catharine Boeshore, wife
wife of Jacob, is of a Blue Mountain family. Stories of Indian massacres
have been handed down. A Basehore,
believed to be her father, was shot by the Indians, according to history written of that time. Jacob H.
Mays of Weiser Park has a grandfather's clock handed down by the Basehore
family.

19. JOHANNES
MEES, lived on small farm
adjoining homestead, now Brown farm. According to Dr. Thomas J. Mays,
this man went to the Lykens Valley. According to Ulysses S. Mase, this
man moved to
Indiana,

m.
Dec. 16, 1806, Susanna Rudy, Born: Oct. 20, 1787, d. Sept. 29, 1852. Built
house and barn at "Crossroads" in 1842 (south of Homestead) and lived there
in later life where they died residing with son George W.

Children:
(1) Sarah Jane, b. Nov. 18, 1832; d. Mar. 4, 1847.
Sarah Jane was converted at age 5 and died at age 14 after a short painful
illness. Her closet exercises morning, noon, and night, prepared her
for God's Service on earth and fit for her presence in heaven. She is
buried next to her grandfather, Michael. The text on her tombstone is
Is. 57, 1 & 2.

30.
FRANCES MAIZE, b. Mar. 16, 1813. (Fannie) m. Joseph Shaeffer. They used
to live in Buffalo Valley, Pa. Later they moved west.

34. HENRY
D. MAIZE, A tombstone maker. m. Mary Jane , b. Sept. 18, 1814;
d. Sept. 28, 1865. Mary Jane and the children are buried in New
Berlin. Henry married again and may have moved to Pottsville.
Henry D. Maize of Treverton was Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Union
Seminary, New Berlin, in 1857, its second year of operation.

42. WILLIAM B.
MAZE (Mace), b. June 7, 1809; d. June 6, 1890. m. Mar. 14, 1833 to Elizabeth Lockert,
b. 1813; d. February 10, 1896. Marriage recorded at 1st Reformed (Tabor)
Church, Lebanon. They moved from Londonderry Twp., Lebanon Co. to
Rapho Twp. (Manheim), Lancaster Co. between 1840 and 1843. He was in
the Culinary Department in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, as a
supplier of herbs and spices to the army mess. The 1880 census lists
him as a U.S. Mail carrier. At the time of his death he was known as "Grandpap".
Obituary"He was for years a member of the Evangelical Church. His
funeral took place on Monday morning last, services at the house, Revds. I.
U. Royer of the Evangelical Church and R. Kramer of the U. B. Church
officiating." He was the father of seventeen children and was survived
by twelve at

Children:93. (1) Hiram Mace, b. 1848.94. (2) Emma E. Mace
(3) Rosabella Mace, lived in New Jersey.
(4) Elizabeth Anna Mace, b. Nov. 19, 1858; d. May, 1955.When Elizabeth Anna was five days old, her mother passed away and "Lizzie"
as she was known in the Schaefferstown area, and "Annie" in the Pine Grove
area, was raised by her Grandmother Brandt in Pine Grove. Later she
lived with her uncle, Daniel Mays, in Schaefferstown, and still later she
worked at the Dr. Miller home in Myerstown. She lived at the Myerstown
Congregational Home in Myerstown until her death. Nurses at the
infirmary told me that they had brought her to the dining room in a wheel
chair on her 96th birthday. She recited Civil War poems and sang songs
of that period. She also accompanied her cousin Jacob, blind Civil War
veteran on his visits to the relatives in this vicinity. She gave us a
lot of information on her father and grandfather's family.

50.
JOHN JACOB MEES, (Mase) b. Nov. 11, 1801; d. Apr. 20, 1879. m. Margaret Mathees, May 5, 1826.Speaking of their son, "Jacob J. Mase is a farmer of the township of
Lincoln, and has been a resident of this county since 1846. In that
year his parents came here with their family, and settled in a part of Mt.
Morris Township which is now included in Lincoln. He was born Oct. 18,
1831, in Lebanon Co., Pa. and is the son of Jacob and Rebecca (Mattas) Mase.
His parents were born in the same portion of Pa. that he was and were there
married. They were both of Pennsylvania-Dutch origin and were brought up in
that State. The earlier ancestors were natives of the same county and
the progenitors of the familyin this county were associated for many years with the history of the
earliest settlementof that State. When the family of Mr. Mase came to the West, in 1846,
they located in what is now Lincoln Township. They made a claim of 160
acres of land, all of which is still in possession of their descendents.
The mother is yet living on the estate with her son...The mother is 81 years
of age. She is in excellant health and is in as full possession of her
faculties as ever." Forreston, Ogle County, Illinois Children:

53. HENRY MASE, (Henrich
Mees) b. Mar. 10,1810; d. June 13,1878. (About 1952, eleven
grandchildren "of Henry Mase, ten of John Henry Mase's children and Mase
Smaltz of Stouchsburg bought a new double tombstone to replace the single
stones, for the grandparents, which were in sad condition.) Farmer and
Conestoga wagoner with six white horses, hauled ore from Cornwall mines to
Womelsdorf, etc.; hauled wheat to Phila., brought back groceries for stores
in vicinity. Lived on homestead farm where ore was also mined.
Boarded other Conestoga wagoners.

m. Agnes
Lauser. Agnes had a daughter, Ida, now Mrs. Ida Goshert. She has
a son George Goshert of Gouglersville. Although she couldn't recall
the dates of birth and death, she put up a long, low stone on the cemetery
on the west side of the road on the Schaefferstown cemetery for Peter,
Sallie, Alfred, Agnes and John Mays. Mrs. Goshert also loaned us the
Bible which was handed down from John Henrich and Catharine Heilman Mehs
(first son of Nicholas). Our appreciation as a family to Mrs. Goshert!

m. Dec. 27,
1866 to Hannah L. Romig, Allentown.
Member of the Goethean Society, taught in the Parochial School of the
Reformed Church in Harrisburg, instructor in Schaefferstown Academy. In 1872
he became the first principal of the preparatory department of Franklin and
Marshall College.

76. DR. GEORGE MAYS,
b. July 5, 1835; d. Aug. 1, 1909. Writer of Pennsylvania German poetry. "Die
Giegerergie", "Die Bruena-Treg" and others; also pamphlets, one of them. The
Jewish Colony on Tower Hill"most of his writings refer to happenings around
Schaefferstown. Some of his writings can be seen at Lebanon Historical
Society. Brendle5 writes of him: "Educated in Schaefferstown Academy and
Franklin and Marshall College; read medicine in the office of his uncle, Dr.
Christian Bucher, and took a full medical course at U. of P. In 1861,
entered as surgeon m the 93rd Reg., Penna. Volunteers. Practiced at Lititz
after the Civil War.
m. (I) Agnes Zerbe, daughter of Dr.
Jonathan Zerbe. Wife died in a few years. Opened an office in Philadelphia.
m. Dec. 18, 1879 (II) Annie M. Erhlen.
Dr. George Mays and 2nd wife are buried at West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila.
Children:
(1) George E.
Mays, b. Sept. 11, 1880. Unmarried.
(2)
Florence
E. Mays, b. Nov. 7, 1886. Unmarried.

77.
SAMUEL VALENTINE MAYS, ESQ. A.M., b. Dec. 10, 1842; d. Nov. 18, 1875.
"Graduated from F. and M. in 1862, member of the Goethean Society; taught at
Academy at Andalusia, Bucks Co., Pa. Assisted brother Cyrus as professor of
English and Mathematics at Germantown Academy for two years. Read law with
Benjamin Johnson, Esq., admitted to the Philadelphia bar Oct. 19, 1867.
Retained by Seymour, McManus & Co. of Reading to go to California to look
after mining interests. Declined honor of being elected President of
Philadelphia Law Academy. Internal injuries resulted from a fall from horse
while on a 100-mile trip to mines, horse fell on him. Returned home and
after a lingering illness, he passed away."5

89. CHRISTIANA LOCKERT MAZE, b. June 17, 1851; d. Aug. 19, 1912. Buried in
Fulton Mo. Christiana moved to Callaway Co., Mo. in 1879 with Frank and Mr.
and Mrs. Adam Detweiler and several other families. They started a United
Brethren Church south of Fulton. Mo. and later moved to Fulton.
Children:
170. (1) Frank Maze Kreitzer, b. Oct. 15, 1875.

"John M. Mase is a resident in the township of Lincoln and lives on the farm
on which his parents settled in 1846. He was born in Lebanon Co., Pa., March
15, 1829, and is the son of Jacob Mase. The latter came to this county at
the time specified and located on unimproved land. The son was still a
member of the family when the transfer of residence was made, and he was
married in this township. On Nov. 1, 1853, Ellen Meyers became his wife. She
was born in Washington Co., Md., July 8, 1835, and is the daughter of Jacob
and Elizabeth (Gloss) Myers
After he was married, Mr. Mase located on a portion of the farm of his
father and that has sincebeen his home. He has added to the estate in the way of a timber tract that
contains 40 acres. Thelatter is located in what is now known as the West Grove. Mr. Mase is also
the proprietor of 80 acresin Nebraska and 160 acres in Dakota Territory, also a building occupied as a
store in Forreston.Mr. Mase is a Democrat of decided ideas and has been the incumbent of
several local offices."
Children:
(1) Infant, deceased.182. (2) Clara A. Mase183. (3) Elizabeth R. Mase184. (4) Jacob S. Mase, b. 1864.

In addition to information given about
Jacob under the listing of his father (John Jacob Mees No. 50) we have, "Mr.
Mase was married in the township of Lincoln. Miss Sarah Fager became his
wife March 29,1851. She was born in Northumberland Co., Pa., and is the dau.
of Conrad Fager...Mrs. Mase was eight years old when her parents came to
this State and county, and was an inmate of the parental home until her
marriage. She has borne five children and suffered the sorrow of seeing
three of them laid in the green home that hides from sight those whom God
calls...
Mr. Mase is the owner of 80 acres of the homestead of his father and also 20
acres of timber land n the township of Mt. Morris. He is an adherent of the
Democratic party, and with his wife is a member of the German Reform
Church."
We have a letter written by Jacob to Henry Mase, his father's cousin, which
is dated April 1,1869.

127. JOHN
HENRY MASE, b. Nov. 24, 1843; d. Dec. 18, 1927. Lived on homestead farm.
Orchardist. Attended Eastman Business College until his marriage. Bought
woodland in Virginia, drove to Va., sold his horse and buggy and walked home
barefoot carrying his shoes.
m. Jar. 1. 1869 to Amanda Yingst, b. July 7, 1849; d. May 10, 1934, dau. of
John and Sarah Crall (Krall) Yingst. They are buried at Schaefferstown.

135. WILLIAM HENRY MAYS, b. July 18, 1848: d. May 13, 1922 (Tombstone marked
May 9). Farmed first near Lebanon, then near Epler's Church, Bern Twp.,
Berks Co., and lastly along the Wyomissing Creek in West Reading, (Presently
the site of the Masonic Temple, the Reading Museum grounds, and the Reading
Hospital).
m. Mary Ann Dundore, b. Sept. 27, 1850; d. Sept. 15, 1915. They are buried
at Sinking Spring.

165. H. ROBERT MAYS, Esq., b. Nov. 4, 1882; d. Mar. 12, 1969. President
Judge of the courts of Berks County. Graduate of Franklin and Marshall
College and Dickison Law School. Admitted to the Bar at age 21. Appointed
Judge by Gov. Fisher on Apr. 27, 1927. Received Honorary Dr. of Laws from
Albright College. 50 year member Williamson Lodge F & AM and Rajah Shrine.6

196. ULYSSES GRANT MACE, b. February 11, 1869; d. February 21, 1942. Butcher.
m. (I) Nov. 20,1892 to Anna Louise Bowman, b. May 21,1872; d. Mar. 13,1918.
Married in Williams-town. Moved to Shamokin in 1893 where Mary Jane was
born. Moved back to Williamstown in 1894. Moved to Steelton in 1899 where
Agnes Rebecca was born. U. Grant and Anna are buried in Steelton Cemetery.